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Daemon is a book that seeks to illustrate the mastery of technology over humanity. While many stories focus on technological dependence and create apocalyptic scenarios based on the horrible scenario where people suddenly no longer have it available – total absence of electrical energy is a recurring device – Daniel Suarez’s work demonstrates another purpose: to show how exposed and defenseless we can become with the advancement of technology.
Suarez paints our society as a fragile thing, depicting the indispensable elements for our daily life – internet, television, videogames, and the media – as tools of control and manipulation, in order to critique a civilization [...]